Fanny Crosby: A Dramatic Monologue Presentation

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"Blessed assurance." "Heavenly peace." "Divinest comfort." Do you have these things present in your life? As a blind girl, Francis Jane Crosby's grandmother spoke to her heart and showed her the way to the Savior. With His peace and comfort, she came not only to navigate life's trials skillfully but, even more, to give God the glory for her ability to do so! Thus her peace and comfort, her joy, her songs, were truly from heaven, divine, very evidently an overflowing fruit given by her Lord and Savior. This artful retelling of the life story of a heroine in the halls of faith prompts us also to ask if our lives are bringing glory to our Savior and King.

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"Blessed assurance." "Heavenly peace." "Divinest comfort." Do you have these things present in your life? As a blind girl, Francis Jane Crosby's grandmother spoke to her heart and showed her the way to the Savior.

"There is no pit so deep that His great love is not deeper still." We can believe this statement when it comes from one who has been herself in that pit so deep. We identify with it keenly in our situations too.

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